as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
upper-class boys who had an entrenched sense of entitlement
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as in aristocracy
the highest class in a society
a school founded to educate the children of the upper class
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Recent Examples of upper-class
Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
But when Wilmet finally secures an invitation to Piers’s flat, she is received by Keith, a young man who models sweaters for knitting catalogues and has gone to great effort to lay out a tea worthy of his lover’s upper-class female friend.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
What actually qualifies as upper class?
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
Cassandra Freeman, Olly Sholotan, Coco Jones, Akira Akbar and Adrian Holmes costar as Will's relatives, the upper-class Banks of the Bel-Air neighborhood.
—Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
But when Wilmet finally secures an invitation to Piers’s flat, she is received by Keith, a young man who models sweaters for knitting catalogues and has gone to great effort to lay out a tea worthy of his lover’s upper-class female friend.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
Among the middle and upper classes, music was generally seen as a female accomplishment, and teaching its rudiments to children was typically left to mothers, governesses, or schoolmistresses.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
What actually qualifies as upper class?
—Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for upper-class
Adjective
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Playing an aristocratic roaring 20s era sleuth that Christie loosely based on her younger self is certainly far removed from chugging shots on the shores of Malia — even the party scenes.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2026
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The 18th-century aristocratic villa also offers scenic horse rides through the foothills of Mount Etna.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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The best dressed women in the world adored his designs, and his clientele included everyone from American First Ladies and Movie Stars to members of the aristocracy.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The Kardashians and other ring-light aristocracy passed around asymptomatic tests like hors d’oeuvres for parties while frontline clinicians — going toe-to-toe with the virus and terrified of turning their children into their next patients — were informed there simply weren’t tests to spare.—
Jennifer W. Tsai,
STAT,
18 Jan. 2026
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Long Names for Boys Often tied to strength, heritage, and tradition, long names for boys are sometimes tied to nobility.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
13 Jan. 2026
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Its medical professionals aren’t just competent but morally perfect, their personal failings serving mainly to make their essential nobility more tangible.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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Her dalliance with England's upper crust didn't stop there, either — the baker went on to provide the cake for Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday in 2016.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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Even with the other guys' admonitions not to, under any circumstances, be themselves, Dee and Charlie's improbable success in charming these scions of the Philly upper crust had the guys — and us — both baffled and anxiously awaiting an ugly twist.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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The nobles and gentry—the billionaires of Tudor England—made fortunes from the reclaimed monastery lands and created a myth of Henry’s military strength and English pride.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Oct. 2025
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Parker will play Mary Washington, George’s strong willed mother, while Rodgers will play Sally Cary, the charming beauty of the Virginia gentry who first sees his potential.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Upper-class.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/upper-class. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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